Ship's Explosives Pose Risk Off Of Honduras, U.s. Says

Latin America & Caribbean - In Brief

December 3, 2004

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- U.S. experts have determined that several hundred tons of explosives on a Libyan-flag cargo ship anchored off Honduras' Atlantic coast posed a serious threat because they were not adequately secured, a port-security official said Thursday. The ship's Canadian owner, Egyptian captain and a first officer from the Sudan have been charged by Honduran prosecutors with illegally transporting explosives and threatening the environmental security of Puerto Cortes.